Open Access An overview Ruth Quinn Anthony Hornby

Open Access An overview Ruth Quinn, Anthony Hornby Library and Information Access Charles Darwin University

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY What is Open Access? • Research data and literature that is digital, online, free of charge to readers, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. • OA improves discovery, access and re-use. • OA means access sooner. • OA is compatible with copyright, peer review, revenue – even profit

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY What is Open Access (cont)? • Open Access publication + Open public sector information + Open data sharing networks = an effective e. Research future.

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY Why Open Access? • • • Increased Accessibility Acceleration of research results Economically feasible Empowers readers New visibility, readership and impact

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY How Open Access? • OA Journals – peer review content is freely available to the world Ø non-profit (e. g. Public Library of Science or PLo. S) and for-profit (e. g. Bio. Med Central or BMC). • OA Archives or repositories – content freely available to the world, content not necessarily peer reviewed – preprints and postprints can be included. • personal web sites, ebooks, listservs, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and P 2 P file-sharing networks.

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY OA Publishing environment • Dramatic growth of Open Access continues • The percentage of the world's scholarly literature that is freely available appears to be close to 20%.

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY OA Publishing environment • There are 53 open access mandates in the world, both from research institutes such as Harvard Law School, Cornell and major funding bodies like the NIH, CIDR, MRC, Wellcome Trust and with more to come. • Public sector information agreements such as AARHUS convention, INSPIRE are also taking shape internationally. Expect more to come. • ABS and Geoscience Australia are both considering Open Access here.

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY OA and Federal Government Review of the National Innovation System “Venturous Australia” Hon. Kim Carr “We are and will remain a net importer of knowledge, so it is in our interest to promote the freest possible flow of information domestically and globally. The arguments for stepping out first on open access are the same as the arguments for stepping out first on emissions trading – the more willing we are to show leadership on this, we more chance we have of persuading other countries to reciprocate. And if we want the rest of the world to act, we have to do our bit at home. ”

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY OA and Federal Government • Recommendation 7. 8 Comply with international standards of open publishing. Release under a creative commons licence. • Recommendation 7. 9 Recognise the research and innovation role of information repositories. Fund them accordingly. • Recommendation 7. 10 Specific strategy for machine searchable repositories Public funding agencies and universities as drivers. • Recommendation 7. 14 Content funded by Australian governments should be made freely available. Lead by example. • Recommendation 12. 8 Develop common means for collecting and sharing data across all jurisdictions.

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY OA and Federal Government • Accessibility Framework • Commercialisation of research • OA stimulates innovation • ARC supports OA • NHMRC supports OA

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY OA and the Federal Government (cont) • HERDC specification being reviewed regarding Open Access. • Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research infrastructure 2008

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY Issues/Challenges • Copyright • Patents (Patent Lens) • Machine interpretation of rights • Measuring impact

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY CDU e. Space • Located at http: //espace. library. cdu. edu. au. • Theses - 560 • HERDC publications: ~2800 Institute of Advanced Studies Graduate School for Health Practice Menzies School of Health Research School for Environmental Research School for Social and Policy Research 23 350 377 60

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY CDU e. Space • Faculty of Environment, Health and Science Education 196 Engineering and IT 242 Environment and Life Sciences 510 Health Sciences 44 • Faculty of Law, Business and Arts Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems Creative Arts and Humanities Law and Business Other research areas Yet to be sorted 30 276 119 19 496

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY CDU e. Space • We intend to start collecting the full text of publications to attach to metadata records very soon. We will start with HERDC items. If you know of anyone who can help with this activity please contact me. Anthony. hornby@cdu. edu. au or ext 6011 Every assistance we can get is appreciated. • Once e. Space is made live we will enable OAI interfaces to the system to allow all the metadata and full text to be indexed and searchable by Google Scholar, OAIster, the ARROW Discovery Service and others. • We intend to extend the use of the repository in 2009 and anticipate working closely with the CDU research community to develop e. Space to best meet your needs.

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY Benefits to you once we are live • Web statistics available, see who is accessing your research in near real time • New citation tools like Citeseer will find your research and show who is citing it more efficiently. • Citation rates are likely to increase • Never lose research again, we’ll keep it safe for you accessible via a permanent link. • A permanent link you can share with your friends / colleagues now & into the future.

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY More Info OA online site coming Discussion